Troubling encounters -- Abstractionism, revisited -- Dealing with difference : doing criminal law and social order -- Situating remorse -- Visualizing cases -- Folding times, making truths -- Productive fictions for the study of the law : from hyper-explanation to hyper object.
Summary:
"Chapter 1 Troubling Encounters 1.1 Ways of Case-Making: A Provocation This book is a testament to a journey through social scientific and judicial case-making practices. That is, it seeks to take seriously how judges as well as social scientists make their case about the world: how, in other words, judges and social scientists draw on words, people, and things to produce an account of the way things are. The notion of casemaking is used here speculatively, provocatively perhaps: not as a way to suggest judges and social scientists may, after all, have a lot in common, but rather to propose that we take seriously the very different practices that go into making a case about the world, in the world. In so doing, this book commits itself to an understanding of social and legal life as practical and occasionally messy business: always ongoing, never not concrete, irreducibly multiple. This book concentrates, first, on the truths and facts sociologists have produced about legal practices. It is concerned with the questions of what these social scientific observers have seen when they cast their eyes on these practices; how they have seen what they have seen, and which realities they have enacted in their approaches. Second"-- Provided by publisher.
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